third rate in the tropics

Found this one, which starts with a dramatic spoiler — the protagonist will kill his wife in just a few days — on my most recent trip to France. What seems gruesome, and obviously is, doesn’t appear as such beforehand and is treated in a light, flowing, anecdotal manner. The writer gives herself time to delve deep into the mechanisms of relationships, the microaggressions and reactions between those who live together. In this case the woman in the couple has had enough, while the man just can’t stand being rejected. In a YouTube video about her book, the author said in French she wanted to dive into the paradox of how a fantasy of eternal love can turn into a burning realization of instant annihilation. The guilty man is a Parisian book editor who can’t write but who loves to overedit, to clean up where it's not needed, with his livelihood increasingly on the line. His wife, who he’s never been violent to, barely makes any money, frequents the art world and former flames,